Question

A friend knows I'm taking a technology class in college and asks me how a hard drive works. What should I say to a friend about how a hard drive work.

Answer 1

It's the main store of data on a computer. It's involatile, so data isn't lost when power is switched off. Relatively speaking, it's slow to access compared to the rest of the memory in the computer. Part of it can also become virtual memory when the RAM is full